In the shadow of a long-extinct volcano, Crater Lake’s deep blue waters – and the surrounding forests and meadows – are home ...

Ground squirrels spend many months in a winter slumber, and then awake ravenous and eat anything and everything in sight. A study of 700,000-year-old DNA from coprolites — fossilized poo — has now ...

DNA sequences from fossilized poo have revealed that ancient relatives of ground squirrels (Urocitellus sp.) ate a diverse diet of plants, insects and carcasses of megafauna, including woolly mammoths ...

When most people imagine paleontologists at work, they likely envision researchers investigating giant dinosaur fossils or a long-frozen woolly mammoth. Sometimes, however, the best snapshots of ...

Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of species of plants, insects, microbes and large ...

In a new study, fossilized droppings suggested that ancient ground squirrels ate the meat of much larger animals, including mammoths, bison and saber-toothed cats. By Kate Golembiewski During the ...

Researchers analyzed permafrost samples collected from ground squirrel burrows that span several glacial periods and can remain frozen and sealed for thousands of years. Hamilton, ON, June 9, 2026 – ...

Ground squirrels are a keystone species. I know what you are thinking: “That means Gunn High School is the epicenter of the ecological universe.” Or maybe “How is it that mounds of dried grass studded ...

Squirrels look super cute running about in the yard. While not a lot of gardeners would mind occasionally feeding a squirrel for fun, things stop being fun when these rodents turn from cute, furry ...

This wildlife short film focuses on ground squirrels, also known as susliks. Discover the daily activities and natural behavior of these fascinating small mammals in their native habitats. The film ...